Began in this fight in 1964 as a kid in Rhode Island helping my dad hand out Goldwater bumper stickers and cans of ginger ale emblazoned with Goldwater labeling on it. Difficult to stand tall at time when the world was still mourning Kennedy, but we did our best in that 1964 electoral rout. Dad was a doctor - refused to participate in the Johnson Medicare system when enacted in 1965 - eventually swore off all insurance re-imbursemnts - cash paying customers only, and charged a fair price. Applauded the rise of Reagan in 1966 when he won CA gov. He was actually strongly looked at in 1968 for Pres on the back side of delivering his famous "A time for choosing" speech at the 1964 RNC convention. It wasn't his turn. It was Nixon's

When Nixon was elected in 1968, dad breathed a sigh of relief even as his father did when Ike was elected in 1956. When Nixon took the US off the gold standard in 1971, and through Kissenger cozied up to China and effectivley abondoning Taiwan in 1972 - big misgivinings arose about him - too much Council on Foreign Relations cabal infestation - Rockefeller mischief. Nixon wins landslide in 1972, bombs the shit out of Hanoi finally, was begins to win down. Pissed off the warmongers - CIA entraps Nixon in Watergate. Gone 1974. Ford (part of Warren Commission) becomes Pres, almost assassinated. Reagan challenged him in 1976 - RINOs ruled the RNC. He waited till thenext time Ford loses to the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission pawn, Carter - who has us raped with oil, paying jews and arabs US dollars to stop ME fighting. Destroyed US standing internationally on the backside of US withdrawa from SE Asia. Iran takes US hostages.

Reagan elected in a lanslide against Carter in 1980 and takes Senate. Too few on this board appreciate Reagan, and they too soon forget he bankrupted the USSR and won the Cold War without firing a shot. Won 49 States in 1984. Bush's still doing deep state shit to undermine him even to te point of failed assassination attempt in 1981.

Most people's familarity with Ron Paul starts with his campaigns for Pres beginning in 1990's - mid 2000's. I was reading about his activity in Congress back in the then current late 70's early 1980's. Used to read a newletter back then wriitten weekly by a former WWII correspondent (we only had paper and pamphlets to pass around back then) entitled "Don Bell Reports" (no relation to Art Bell). Paul was leading the charge for sound money and audit/end the Fed back in the early 1980's. He's still doing it today, and son Rand is in thr Senate.

We watched the Iron Curtain fall in Europe - the inevitble outcome of Reagan's policy, and promptly watched GHWB cozy up to China post Tiananmen Sq. massacre (1994), and betray us all to the CCP. I am guessing most on this board were awake during the Clinton-Bush-Obama War on Terror years, and the loss of Consitiutional freedoms this has presented at least since 9/11.

I'll end this here thanking the Cheeky Skunk for acknowlging the efforts of those who have remained true and uncompromisingly so to our core Conservsatism for many decades, and were the faithful Conservatives before Conservative was "cool".